Quotes from Joanne Froggatt


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I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.


My skin doesn't look as good when I'm not eating enough fruits and vegetables, so I try to eat plenty.


When I'm filming, I live out of a suitcase, so everything is thrown everywhere. In real life, I'm a bit tidier.


You can have a great script, and it can be a great show, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't take the public's interest.


I do Facebook, but I only have my friends and family on it, and they always laugh at me for how little I post. I don't know how to upload photos, so I never add pictures.


In true-life dramas, you have to do so much research. It's a big responsibility to make sure things are as correct as possible. In 'Robin Hood', you have more artistic license - it's all action, adventure and reaction. This gives everyone a chance to make their characters their own and to make them believable.


It's not that anything has changed about me, and, it's a cliche, but I think that as you get older, you learn to accept who you are, and you feel more comfortable in your own skin.


My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.


'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.


It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.


I was neurotic and weird from an early age.


If you're wearing something I like, I will come over and ask where you got it from. I'm not shy!


The condition of my skin changes often, depending on the season or if I'm traveling a lot.


There's an interesting mix to 'Robin Hood' because it's kind of modern but medieval. There is a blend of adventure with a very modern feel.


I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.


I use mainly products by Dermalogica. They have specialized formulas to target specific skin needs, which I like. It works well for my sensitive skin.


My dad had a flock of sheep, which he used to milk, and then my mum used to make cheese and yogurt out of the sheep's milk and sell it. It was kind of an unusual upbringing, really.


My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.


As an actor, or as a person, I like to do things that are challenging.


I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.